How the Rich Reap Huge Tax Breaks From Private Nonprofits

Post by nobodyandproud » Sun, Jul 30, 2023, 1:09 PM UTC

mycologos wrote: post #29

I know, I know, "bounties" are a fraught concept. Some people find "snitching" odious. But this is a tantalizing use case. All the author of this piece got out of their legwork was another article, but it also yielded some money for the federal government: > Two days after I emailed Finwall in April inquiring about the Xie Foundation’s purchase of the house, the foundation filed records with the California attorney g…

Post by brigadier132 » Sun, Jul 30, 2023, 1:13 PM UTC

afavour wrote: post #58

brigadier132 wrote: post #53

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Our roads suck and they were created 100 years ago. Can we talk about effective use of government money from the past half century at least? And can we at least show a pattern of competency rather than a pattern of waste?

You’re obviously coming into this discussion with a pre-existing viewpoint and have no actual interest in hearing alternatives. Why does it matter when roads were created? They require near constant maintenance, something public funds do. And “our roads suck” is just an absurd generalisation and is obviously not true. Of course parts of the road system suck but it’s an integral part of keeping the country running and…

Post by tommiegannert » Sun, Jul 30, 2023, 1:17 PM UTC

dools wrote: post #10

throwawayqqq11 wrote: post #2

As a side note: One of the primary reasons of how the rich get richer and how public services (our society) degrade is, that we stopped taxing them. For decades now. Imho, its a shift of the represented interests in policies. We should stop pondering enshitification or greedflation an start seeing it as a systemic issue, that we can observe everywhere. https://en.wikipedia.org//wiki/Commodification#In_Marxist_th...

The bigger problem is a fear of public spending because of perceived incompetence. The stigma comes from a time when only governments had run big bureaucratic systems. Now we can see there is little difference between public and private bureaucracies except for a lack of oversight on the latter. Still the stigma remains and all public spending is filtered through a profit making entity.

Post by afavour » Sun, Jul 30, 2023, 1:17 PM UTC

brigadier132 wrote: post #63

afavour wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You’re obviously coming into this discussion with a pre-existing viewpoint and have no actual interest in hearing alternatives. Why does it matter when roads were created? They require near constant maintenance, something public funds do. And “our roads suck” is just an absurd generalisation and is obviously not true. Of course parts of the road system suck but it’s an integral part of keeping the country running and…

> Why does it matter when roads were created? Because we are talking about how our money will be spent now. > And “our roads suck” is just an absurd generalisation and is obviously not true. I disagree and I believe that "terrible roads" is public sentiment. I've never heard anyone praise our roads. > You’re obviously coming here with a perspective and you have no actual interest in hearing counterpoints I have a ver…

Post by realityking » Sun, Jul 30, 2023, 1:20 PM UTC

willcipriano wrote: post #54

throwawayqqq11 wrote: post #14

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Do you know the last successful, citizen-only driven revolution? I would guess the french revolution ~1790 and it was a bloodbath. Today, the military technology has extended the power gap so much, that chopping heads off is no option for eg. north koreans without support from the outside. I think a violent revolution would only tighten the surveilance state.

The ven diagram of people who tell me that we can't possibly overthrow the government contrasted with people who say January 6th was a threat to democracy is essentially a circle.